Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1905 — Errors of the Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Errors of the Doctors.

George W. Hennessey, a lifesaver, examined by a physician of the United States marine hospital in New York and pronounced “physically fit,” dropped dead a moment later. John R. Millspaugh, serving a short sentence in the Detroit house of correction for a minor offense, boasted that he could deceive the physician attached to that institution. He was taken ill and the doctors believed he was feigning illness —until he died. Then they found they had deceived themselves. These two men died on the satne day. * Years ago a clever woman reporter visited the office? of a number of physicians, gave them an identical statement, and each named a separate complaint and prescribed a different course of treatment. From time to time the news columns of the daily press tell how some unfortunate has died of injuries and disease after having been taken in an ambulance to a hospital where his or her ailment was diagnosed as “intoxication.” Yet against any. record of blunders it may be worth while to offset the action of Dr. Michael K. Warner,''of Baltimore, who destroyed his accounts before In? died in 'order that his patients should not be pressed for payment by his administrators. There was the spirit that exalts the medical profession above any mere science.New York World.